Welcome back to all staff

The Library Staff would like to take this opportunity to remind you and to inform you!

Remind you:

• Now is the time to book in your Library tour. The tours can be adapted for your class and needs, introductory tour, how to use the databases – including the NCC and Australian Standards, how to use the catalogue, to specialised research skill sessions. Your tour can also be combined with the Counselling Units’ Welcome talk.

• That you can link your section/ class eLearning platform to the Library’s subject specific wiki pages. Library staff can send you the correct link to add, please ask.

Inform you:

• New Opening hours for 2012 are as follows:
Monday - Wednesday 8.30am-8.00pm
Thursday 8.30am-6.30pm
Friday 8.30am-5.00pm
• Over the vacation break the student computers have been updated to incorporate Windows 7

• Computer Area 2 has been expanded to total 14 student computers in that area

• The library now provides an even more comfortable and supportive environment for you whilst studying and teaching at the College.

• Current year (2012) passwords for the eBooks and eResources databases including Standards Australia and NCC can be obtained from the library.

National Year of Reading 2012

Nearly half the population struggles without the literacy skills to meet the most basic demands of everyday life and work. There are 46% of Australians who can't read newspapers; follow a recipe; make sense of timetables, or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle.

Australian libraries and library associations are behind a campaign to turn 2012 into the National Year of Reading, linking together all the great things that are already happening around books, reading and literacy, and giving them an extra boost, with inspirational programs and events taking place across the country.

Libraries will be partnering with government, the media, writers, schools, publishers, booksellers, employers, child care providers, health professionals and a whole host of other organisations that share our passion for reading.

Website for National Year of Reading 2012

Library hours for Christmas-New Year 2011-12

LIBRARY HOURS

Mon 5th - Fri 9th December
9am-5pm
(excluding Wed 7th when library closed
for staff development activities)









LIBRARY CLOSES for stocktaking, annual leave, public holidays
Mon 12th December 2011 — 20th January 2012


LIBRARY REOPENS:
Mon 23rd – Wed 25th January 2012
9: 30 am-3:30 pm
(CLOSED
Thursday 26th January Australia Day
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Friday 27th January
9:30am-5:00pm

Mon 30th January — Fri 3rd February 2012
9: 30 am-5:00 pm
until classes resume

Have a happy Christmas and safe New Year

Best wishes
the Library staff

Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney is a groundbreaking project to produce a new kind of history of Sydney: online, growing and changing, covering every aspect of human life in this place. Geographically, the Dictionary of Sydney includes the whole Sydney basin and spans the years from the earliest human habitation to the present.
The Dictionary contains new historical writing enriched with other resources – images, maps, sound, music, oral history, film, documents and pointers to important objects in Sydney collections. New material is added regularly, and linked to what is already there.
Contributors include academics, professional historians, heritage specialists, local studies experts, genealogists, enthusiasts, volunteers and readers.

http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/

eBooks @ your library

eBooks are now searchable via the catalogue and eResources tab.

Access eBooks in a range of subject areas, particularly IT and business management. You can search for electronic versions of books by subject area and read them online. They can be searched in combination with EBSCOhost databases.

Click eBook (EBSCO host) video tutorial



Noteworthy eBook features include:
Search and view eBooks on the EBSCOhost platform.
Browse eBooks by subject area and by the latest added to your library's collection.
View eBook Table of Contents from a search Result List.
Navigate to eBook chapters or sections directly from Result List and Detail Record.
Search within an eBook for specific terms.


For Mobile users:
Android App Update - The free app for Android devices allows users to search premium EBSCOhost database content.
The convenience and rich functionality of the app also lets users:

Choose which databases to search
Limit results to full text or peer reviewed
Search a library's catalog etc

The Android app download link is available at the bottom of EBSCOhost screens.

Screen Australia - Educational Resources

Developed by Education Services Australia through The Le@rning Federation, the education collection is designed to help teachers and students make the most of the wide range of moving image resources on the site. The clips in this collection are accompanied by teachers’ notes created by specialist curriculum writers. Expert curators’ notes also provide useful background material.

So take a look:
http://aso.gov.au/education/

Toolboxes

There are some new Series 13 Flexible Learning Toolboxes are now available on Equella.

13.01 Licensed to plumb II

13.03 Music box

13.05 Timber plus

13.07 Squeak eClean

Log on and check out these valuable teaching resources.